Adriana Georgescu-Cosmovici

Adriana Georgescu-Cosmovici (23 July 1920 – 29 October 2005) was a political prisoner and memoirist from Romania, who emigrated to Western Europe in 1948.

Biography Born in Bucharest, Adriana Georgescu completed her secondary studies in 1939 at the Ion Heliade Rădulescu High School. In her memoirs, she recounted the manner in which she had been tortured by a team of which Alexandru Nicolschi was a member, and indicated that the latter had been one of the three to have threatened her with guns. She also detailed various torture methods (including vicious beatings of detainees) Nicolschi personally engaged in during interrogations at Malmaison Prison. After a trial (where she detailed the torture and rape she endured during interrogation), she was sentenced in September 1945 to 4 years of prison After marrying the English officer and author Frank Lorimer Westwater, she became a citizen of the Great Britain in 1961.